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There has always been a lot of discussion about which is the best approach to managing sales people, activity based management or results based management. For the record, I'm 100% in the results based management camp. I...

While much of the nation is preoccupied with Obamacare and picking new health insurance at work, older Americans have deadlines of their own coming up -- involving Medicare.

WHEN it was discovered in 2000, the Kashagan oilfield in Kazakhstan's waters in the northern Caspian Sea was the world's biggest oil find in three decades. By now it was supposed to be pumping out 1.2m barrels a day (mbd...

Will 2014 spell doom for the last white House Democrat in the Deep South? THE best political ad of the 2012 election involved Congressman John Barrow and his favourite guns. A Democrat who represents a conservative part ...

The UK offshore area is no longer the draw it was when BP struck oil in the 1970s

The United States is one of the world's most prosperous economies, with a gross domestic product that exceeded that of any other country last year. However, a vibrant economy alone does not ensure all residents are well ...

A health-care worker who cared for the Ebola patient who died last week in Dallas has preliminarily tested positive for the disease, Texas health officials say, in what is likely to have been the first known transmission...

It's a street car that the owner says gets 21 mpg on the highway.          

Washington

Guest Post: When dealing with the government, CEOs too often mistake complexity for dysfunction. And, as a result, investors and technologists are warned-off of addressing public challenges that can yield real impact.

This is how a market correction starts: Good news for consumers is bad for investors. Equity markets entered October on a slippery slope, given the historical markers for the scariest...

A state panel has granted tax breaks to Amazon.com for its new distribution center in Reno.

Apple's much-anticipated new operating system, iOS 8, was released to the public on Sept. 17.  Among the changes is something called widgets in the Notification Center. Widgets give you information at a glance, right fr...

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Retirement is an opportunity for a new chapter of your life, expert says.          

Congress has a bill ready to cut the corporate tax rate to 25 percent as a measure in combating US firms merging with overseas companies to solely lower their tax...

When solar maker Solyndra collapsed, a lot of folks were rising up. Calling the $535 million federal loan guarantee a colossal display of crony capitalism, they had taken aim at the Obama administration and what they des...

Virgin Atlantic lost a skirmish at home, but the war with British Airways over the Atlantic continues

WASHINGTON

Its not all the eurozones fault, whatever Osborne says. Growth means exports, which means manufacturing, which means a new attitude to the makers whose march has never really got going

Sir Anthony Atkinson of Nuffield College and Princeton-based Angus Deaton are contenders for their work on inequality and wellbeing

Markets are diving, Germany and the eurozone are weak and there is alarm over Ebola and a potential banking bubble, so the themes were sombre when the IMF and World Bank met in Washington last week